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Henry Kissinger warned that Ukraine could be a bridge between the West and Russia. To Russia, Ukraine can never be just a foreign country. Ukraine has been part of Russia for centuries. But the Kremlin must not “try to force Ukraine into a satellite status.”
Goenawan Mohamad
March 14, 2022
IN 1947, just two years after the end of World War II with the subjugation of the main enemy, Germany, and the appearance of the United States as the most powerful country in the world, someone calling himself ‘X’ wrote a piece for the July edition of the prominent journal Foreign Affairs. The mysterious name was a sign of the article’s dangerous contents: ‘X’ showed ways that America must confront the Soviet Union,
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